We have hords of farmers living into their nineties around here that have disced serpentine (known to contain wide varieties of asbestos while being the official CA State Rock) filled fields since tractors and discs were invented, pulled by teams of horses and steam tractors all the way to modern day D-9's, etc. (no pockets of lung cancer victims here)
Naturally occuring Uranium is totally benign! There is more danger from burning coal than from movin around naturally occuring uranium! Who ever told you otherwise is blow some smoke up your pantleg that's way more toxic than asbestos, or certainly uranium!!!
I s'pose you think DDT is a deathly dangerous toxic substance, too, right? Rachael Carson was full of it!!!
Stop believing all the "crying of wolf" and "conventional wisdom" that's been perpetrated by those who wish to scare you into complying with their liberal/leftist engineered behavior based on inordinate fear and popularized phobias!!!
And hell, it came out of the ground; What's the problem with putting it back?
IMHO, Rachael Carson was the root cause of more suffering and death over the years than Hitler.